Danny Lesh freely admits to stealing a bicycle–back from the thief who stole it from him.

The day after President Obama expressed his personal support for gay marriage, a report has surfaced of his presumptive general election opponent engaging in a mean, anti-gay “prank” back in 1965.

A blog post lampooning black studies dissertations got a writer fired, setting off a controversy over the limits of free speech.

Nicholas Katzenbach, a central figure in the civil rights fights of the 1960s, has died.

The Wall Street Journal publishes a screed aimed at those about to graduate college.

The Atlantic Council honored UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Britain’s Prince Harry, Unilever CEO and philanthropist Paul Polman, the enlisted men and women of the United States Armed Forces, and violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter.

Not only does yogurt make mice slimmer; it also makes them sexier.

Americans are ridiculously fat and getting fatter by the nanosecond.

The New Yorker’s John Cassidy sees “Good and Bad News for Obama” in Nicolas Sarkozy’s defeat.

Iran’s path to a nuclear bomb isn’t as easy as most think, Jacques Hymans argues in the current Foreign Policy.

Our psychological and cultural biases make evaluating information and arguments rationally next to impossible.

The outpouring from my Twitter stream yesterday on the news of the death of Adam Yauch, MCA of the Beastie Boys, surprised me.

When Dan Drezner tweeted “I’m not going to read anything dumber than this today,” my inclination was to scoff. He actually undersold it.

The blind Chinese activist who daring escape from house arrest set off a diplomatic brouhaha that grabbed the world’s attention is about to get his wish to come to America.

The price of a DC cab ride went up big time recently and neither riders nor cabbies are happy.

Ruthlessly avoiding fights that aren’t worth the risk is shrewd leadership. But Romney still needs to show he can fight and win.

A series of shocking revelations about Barack Obama’s past have not changed my view of the man who’s been in the White House three-plus years.

College football will get a four-team playoff. What it’ll look like is anyone’s guess.

My first piece for The New Republic, “Why the Obama Administration’s Drone War May Soon Reach a Tipping Point,” is up.

Wolf Blitzer just observed that the fact that the president has to take these “extraordinary security precautions” to enter Afghanistan proves how far we still have to go in Afghanistan.

Some Navy SEALs are weighing in on the brouhaha.

Five suspects have been arrested in a plot to blow up a Cleveland bridge.

We seldom blame presidents for bold actions that go wrong. We despise them for appearing weak and indecisive.

Once upon a time, Jimmy Carter was everyone’s favorite former president. Not so much these days, especially among other former presidents.

Is Mitt Romney the least experienced major-party presidential nominee since1940?

Joe Biden says we can’t afford a president who has to learn foreign policy on the job.

The Obama campaign’s cheap politicizing of the SEAL raid that took out bin Laden is unseemly. And unnecessary.

Should the United States Navy name a ship after martyred gay activist Harvey Milk? This is not a rhetorical question.

My latest for The National Interest,Insurmountable Obstacles in Afghanistan, has been posted.

The famous “double helix” article was published 59 years ago today. It’s worth a look.

Lt Gen Benny Gantz says Iran “is going step by step to the place where it will be able to decide whether to manufacture a nuclear bomb. It hasn’t yet decided to go the extra mile.”

The American economy is so bad that people are reverse migrating to the Third World.

Charlie Savage documents a major shift in Barack Obama’s philosophy of presidential authority.

Rex Huppke reports, “Facts died Wednesday, April 18, after a long battle for relevancy with the 24-hour news cycle, blogs and the Internet.”

You’ve likely heard that Alabama’s 2011 football championship trophy was accidentally smashed last weekend by the father of one of the players. Now, as Paul Harvey would have said, for the rest of the story.

The commander of Fort Knox has canceled a Ted Nugent concert after the rocker’s recent rant about President Obama.

Pat Summitt’s predecessor stepped down as head coach to work on her doctorate.

Copy specific phrases and buzzwords from the job posting into the résumé and build them into the bullet points.

Newt Gingrich is still getting Secret Service protection at an estimated cost to taxpayers of $44,000 a day.

Some Marine women are going to Infantry Officers Course. Here’s how to make it work.

Legendary musician Levon Helm is dying.

Pat Summitt, arguably the greatest women’s basketball coach of all time, is stepping down to deal with Alzheimer’s .

Ted Nugent, whose music I really liked when I was in junior high school, said something vile and crazy.

Andy Baio and friends have undertaken an interesting project: color coding political blogs to track bias.

The story of Ensign Chuck Lord may be the greatest—or perhaps only—prank in Pentagon art history

The Atlantic’s Max Fisher reflects on “What America Can Learn From Norway’s Anders Breivik Trial.”

Andrew Exum believes the Army should “get rid of all medals not related to valor or campaign-specific service.”